Johnny Reynolds v. Paul Caspari

Johnny Reynolds, a Missouri prisoner, appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

On August 4, 1987, Reynolds shot his wife of seventeen days in the chest with a shotgun, killing her. A jury convicted Reynolds of second-degree murder and armed criminal action. He received concurrent prison sentences of twenty years and three years. He appealed, raising eight grounds for reversal. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction. State v. Reynolds, 782 S.W.2d 793 (Mo.Ct.App.1989). The Missouri Supreme Court refused to…